322 . 1)1 V DELPHI \ DIXANDRIA. Lfft/lffntK. 



LATHYRUS. Schreb. gen. N. 1186. 

 Style flat, villous above, broader upwards. Two superior 

 divisions of the calyx shorter. 



1. L. Aphaca. Willd. iii. 1077. 



Peduncles owe-^owered. 7 ew</?i/s leafless. Stipules ses- 

 sile, sagittate-cordate, and obtuse. 



Beng. Musoor chuna. 



Although the stipules do not agree perfectly with Miller's 

 figure, which represents them acute and with short petioles ; 

 yet 1 think they can be nothing more than varieties of the 

 same species. 



The flowers of the Indian sort are yellow, the legumes flat, 

 and with four or five seeds. Curtis's figure in his Flora Lon- 

 dinensis is more like our Indian variety in the stipulae, but his 

 legume has seven or eight seeds. 



2. L. sativus. Willd. iii. 1079. 



Stem climbing-, smooth, four-seeded, with two of its angles 

 winged. Peduncles one-flowered. Tendrils four-leaved.* 

 Stipules adjoined, ovate lanceolate. Legumes ovate-oblong, 

 with a double keel on the back. 



Beng. Kesari. 



Is sown on a strong, rich soil, about the close of the rains, 

 in October ; the harvest is three or four months after. Like 

 other legiuninous plants, it aflTords nuich wholesome, green 

 fodder for cattle ; and the seeds, when the plant is suflfered 

 to remain till they are ripe, are used in diet by the natives. 



* I have seen a whole field with two pair of leaflets to the ten- 

 dril ; and near it another, in which there were only one pair ; the 

 former by far the most luxuriant of the two, though in soil there 

 appeared to be no difference whatever. 



